Advanced positioning involves understanding damage threat zones and optimizing positioning to minimize risk while maximizing impact.
Threat Zone Analysis
Each enemy champion creates threat zones based on their abilities, range, and mobility. Expert players visualize these zones and position accordingly.
Ability Range Visualization: Memorize key ability ranges for common champions. Position just outside these ranges to avoid damage while maintaining your own threat presence.
Mobility Threat Assessment: Account for enemy gap closers, flash cooldowns, and movement abilities when calculating safe positioning distances.
AoE Damage Zones: Avoid clustering with teammates against AoE-heavy team compositions. Maintain spread positioning while preserving team coordination.
Terrain Utilization
Summoner's Rift terrain provides positioning advantages through chokepoints, walls, and brush control.
Chokepoint Control: Use narrow passages to limit enemy engagement angles and force favorable fights. Position tanks in chokepoints while keeping carries behind terrain.
Wall Positioning: Use walls to block enemy skill shots and limit engagement angles. Position near walls for escape routes while avoiding being trapped.
Brush Control: Control brush areas for vision advantages and surprise positioning. Use brush to break enemy vision and create positioning uncertainty.